Yan-Huang Art Museum

Yan-Huang Art Museum

Yanhuang Art Museum is the first large-scale private and public funded Art Museum in China founded by art master Huang Zhou. It aims to collect and display the excellent cultural works of the Chinese nation, and provide art exchange venues for artists and collectors at home and abroad. The museum focuses on the collection, research and display of contemporary Chinese paintings, taking into account the collection and research of ancient Chinese calligraphy and paintings, cultural relics and other works of art, in order to promote the prosperity and development of Chinese painting and national art. Mr. Huang Zhou has donated a large number of his precious collections and works to the art museum, and many artists have also donated their excellent works to the art museum.

On November 24, 2018, Yanhuang Art Museum was selected as "the third batch of Chinese 20th century architectural heritage projects".

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Yanhuang Art Museum is located in the Asian Games Village of Beijing. It is the first large-scale private and public funded Modern Art Museum in China. It is a social public welfare and higher art research institution under the leadership of the Council. Yanhuang Art Museum began to be built in 1986 and opened to the public on September 28, 1991.

Yanhuang Art Museum is the first large-scale private and public funded Art Museum in China initiated by Mr. Huang Zhou, a famous painter in China. It aims to collect and display the excellent cultural works of the Chinese nation, and provide art exchange venues for artists and collectors at home and abroad. The museum focuses on the collection, research and display of contemporary Chinese paintings, taking into account the collection and research of ancient Chinese calligraphy and paintings, cultural relics and other works of art, in order to promote the prosperity and development of Chinese painting and national art. Mr. Huang Zhou donated a large number of his precious collections and works to the art museum, and many artists donated their excellent works to the art museum. Yanhuang Art Museum is a pyramid like building with a total construction area of more than 10000 square meters. The first floor is Yanhuang Art Center and gallery, and the second and third floors are exhibition halls, which are spacious, bright and magnificent. Since its establishment, the Art Museum has held more than 100 large-scale and important exhibitions, such as "works of famous Chinese painters on both sides of the Taiwan Strait", "Ren Bonian's paintings", "works of Liebin and contemporary painters", "paintings of Wu Changshuo, Huang Binhong, Qi Baishi and Pan Tianshou", "Hua Junwu's comic masterpieces", "Hou Bo and Xu Xiaobing's photography retrospective exhibition", etc. In addition, many academic seminars have been held in cooperation with the exhibition, especially the '93 science and art seminar jointly sponsored by famous scientist Li Zhengdao and Mr. Huang Zhou and the' 95 economic and cultural seminar hosted by Yuan Baohua and Huang Zhou, which have exerted great influence at home and abroad. Other exhibitions such as "Beijing Cultural Relics Exhibition", "Li Keran painting exhibition", "collection of Ming and Qing Dynasties painting and calligraphy exhibition", "Huang Zhou Works Exhibition" and "Japan erxuan society reproduction of Taipei Palace Museum collection painting exhibition" also attracted a large number of art lovers and achieved good social benefits.

Exhibitions and collections

Girl chasing

The painting of grassland drama was completed in 1986 when Huang Zhou went to Xinjiang Kazakh area to collect wind. The whole picture of this work describes a Kazakh young man riding in front, chasing and playing with the girl behind him, and the crowd on horseback watching in the distance. The works show the traditional programs of Kazakh nationality. Every festival, the young Kazakh boy and the girl flirt with each other. The man deliberately makes the woman angry, and then runs away on horseback. The girl picks up the whip to chase them to the place where they meet. Huang Zhou has painted many works with similar themes, some in Diaoyutai, some in Zhongnanhai, and this painting is in Yanhuang Art Museum.

autumn wind

"Autumn wind" after his middle age, Mr. Huang Zhou was not only interested in characters, but also in animals, especially chickens, geese, cats, cows and other close contact with human beings. He created a lot of works. This is one of them. It depicts a group of roosters walking in the autumn wind.

Horse training map

The painting of horse training is one of the important works created by Mr. Huang Zhou in the late 1970s. At that time, the gang of four was just smashed, and the painter's creative enthusiasm was like a bird just coming out of the oven. Therefore, Mr. Huang Zhou created the magnificent painting of horse training. The bright smile of the girl, the galloping momentum of the horse and the smooth lines in the picture show Huang Zhou's heroic spirit and profound skill.

celebrate a bumper harvest

In qingfengshou, Huang Zhou borrowed this painting to reflect the joy of the gang of four after it was smashed. In the picture, a group of Uighur villagers are celebrating the harvest, and everyone is jubilant. They are holding a very distinctive local folk song and dance. The 52 characters in the picture have different poses, and the scene is very lively. We can see Mr. Huang Zhou's extraordinary skill in painting big scenes, many people and many scenes.

Longshi department store

Longshi department store reflects that after the founding of the people's Republic of China, people have lived a rich life, and the goods in the stores are also various, no longer single black and blue. This is the scene of many women holding cloth tickets to buy cloth in Longshi department store.

architectural style

The architectural form of the art museum absorbs the architectural style of the Tang and Song Dynasties, and adopts an asymmetric pattern, integrating the spirit of the times, cultural tradition and local characteristics. The roof is made of purple glazed tiles with eggplant skin in Mentougou, the eaves tiles are decorated with "Yanhuang" pattern, the external walls are overlaid with bluestone slabs commonly used in Xishan residential buildings in Beijing, and the side walls of the main gate of the base are made of mushroom stones of Lugou bridge. The design of the art museum is presided over by Liu Li, deputy chief designer of Beijing Architectural Design Institute.

The main entrance of the museum is a large copper door made of gun shells from the 7312 factory of the Ministry of weapons. It is engraved with relief patterns of ancient art treasures such as "talking and singing figurines", "three colors of the Tang Dynasty" and "hairpin ladies". The small exhibition hall and the two bronze doors at the entrance of the ground floor are donated by Taiwan's cultural and business circles. The patterns are "auspicious double phoenix" and "he Shi Bi".

The main building of the first phase of the Art Museum has two and a half floors above ground and one and a half floors underground. There are exhibition hall, multi-function hall, Council hall, gallery, studio, mounting repair workshop, gallery, arts and crafts shop, Yanhuang Art International Exchange Association, photo studio, etc. There are nine exhibition halls. The space structure adopts cluster organization, which can be separated and closed freely. Natural light is used to the maximum extent, and direct sunlight is avoided on the exhibits. Cold light source lamp, fire prevention and anti-theft, constant temperature and humidity, air conditioning and ventilation, background music and other facilities are used in the exhibition cabinet, which solves the dual needs of art and admirers. The multi-function hall integrates exhibition hall, conference hall and audio-visual education hall with complete lighting and sound facilities. The library has a solid structure, with perfect constant temperature, humidity, air conditioning and ventilation, fire and anti-theft, anti insect and anti microbial facilities.

Introduction to Huang Zhou

Brief introduction to Huang Zhou

Huang Zhou, (March 1925 April 1997). He was born in Fuxian County, Hebei Province. Famous Chinese painting painter, collector, outstanding social activist. He was appointed by the Ministry of culture to lead the creation of the Academy of Chinese painting and served as vice president of the Academy. He has successively served as director of the Chinese Artists Association, member and standing member of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, and director of Yanhuang Art Museum.

Following the principle of "life is the only source of creation", he has been living deeply for a long time. His footprints are all over the frontier, islands, plateaus and pastoral areas of the motherland. He has painstakingly painted tens of thousands of paintings, and is proficient in figures, animals, landscapes, flowers and birds. He is especially good at painting masterpieces with grand scenes and numerous figures. Many of his masterpieces are displayed on important government affairs occasions or presented as gifts to foreign heads of state. His works have won many international awards and are loved by people at home and abroad. His representative works include playing polo, storm and snow in flood and wasteland, August of grassland, pine and eagle, sheep in its mouth, horse herding, etc. In his later years, he devoted all his life to the construction of Yanhuang Art Museum, a private and public funded Museum. He has made outstanding contributions to the development of China's fine arts and international art exchanges. There are more than 30 kinds of works of Huang Zhou published in various texts and forms. Theoretical works include Huang Zhou on art, Huang Zhou on calligraphy and painting, etc.

Chronology of Huang Zhou

He was born in liangjiazhuang, Li County, Hebei Province on March 31, 1925. He was fond of painting since childhood and became a talent by himself. In 1933, he went to Baoji primary school with his mother.

In 1941, he dropped out of junior high school because of his father's death.

In 1943, Mr. Zhao Wangyun, a famous painter, became a teacher.

In 1944, he traveled with the famous painter Han lelan to sketch in Qinchuan.

In 1946, with a sense of mission to save the country and the people, he went to the Yellow River flood area of Henan Province to sketch.

In May 1949, he joined the Chinese people's Liberation Army and did art work in the northwest military region.

In 1950, he created "father goes to beat Lao Jiang" and participated in the national art exhibition, which was paid attention to by the art circle. The woodcut painting "flourishing of human and animal" won the prize of the Ministry of culture. From the autumn of the same year to 1954, he was also a lecturer in the creation course of the Fine Arts Department of Northwest Normal University.

In 1952, "when the apple blossoms" participated in the exhibition and won the prize.

In 1953, playing polo won the first prize in the National Youth painting exhibition.

She married Ms. Zheng Wenhui in 1954. In the spring of 1955, he was transferred to the creation Office of the Culture Department of the General Political Department of Beijing as a writer.

In 1957, Hong Huang Feng Xue won the gold medal of the sixth World Youth and student peace and friendship Festival.

In 1958, "go to the market" won the bronze award of the Seventh World Youth Festival.

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